Thank you, as a fellow Arab, it’s really frustrating having to hold my tongue when it’s obvious a supermajority of western Jews are fully on board with zionism. The entirety of my early life was based on denouncing ISIS, Al-Queda, and other Wahabbi extremist groups as not real Islam. Iraqis fought and bled to keep the salafi surge from taking over, Iranian forces trained thousands of militias to combat these fundamentalists wherever they were, and in the west my generation had it drilled in our heads that we must always act on our best behavior because we were representatives of our faith.
We are still fighting Wahabbism to this day, it’s a pervasive struggle that happens in every location where Muslims interact with. Entire online forums and communities are still in conflict between Wahabbis and non-fundementalist Muslims, with many more arenas opening up out of nowhere.
This constant back and forth struggle where I have to constantly denounce and sever myself from any Wahabbi influence (a easier task being a Shia admitly) is not something I see within the Jewish community. I’ve organized with anti-zionist Jews, and only so many of them were willing to be staunch on their support for resistance. There was one comrade in particular who I remember was Uncompromising in their support for resistance. To them, the Palestinians were fighting for their liberation and that’s all that mattered, who cared how many IDF soldiers or settler died trying to oppress them.
However that was a rare case, and more often then not, although I do see those people as comrades, as we genuinely organized to the best of our ability, these people could be tiring to deal with. Having to word my statements in ways that wouldn’t be misconstrued for secret antisemitism when sometimes I just wanted to say, “who cares what the Houthi flag says, they’re trying to stop a genocide.” Also a good variety of anti-zionist jews tended towards anarchism over Marxism-Leninism, so of course their were disagreements there as well.
Like, I can understand that material factors are the core to influencing a groups actions. But am I not a little justified as a Muslim to be bitter that when Jews are having their identity attacked due to the actions if zionism, many of them choose to hold on to zionism rather then fight it?
Thank you, as a fellow Arab, it’s really frustrating having to hold my tongue when it’s obvious a supermajority of western Jews are fully on board with zionism. The entirety of my early life was based on denouncing ISIS, Al-Queda, and other Wahabbi extremist groups as not real Islam. Iraqis fought and bled to keep the salafi surge from taking over, Iranian forces trained thousands of militias to combat these fundamentalists wherever they were, and in the west my generation had it drilled in our heads that we must always act on our best behavior because we were representatives of our faith.
We are still fighting Wahabbism to this day, it’s a pervasive struggle that happens in every location where Muslims interact with. Entire online forums and communities are still in conflict between Wahabbis and non-fundementalist Muslims, with many more arenas opening up out of nowhere.
This constant back and forth struggle where I have to constantly denounce and sever myself from any Wahabbi influence (a easier task being a Shia admitly) is not something I see within the Jewish community. I’ve organized with anti-zionist Jews, and only so many of them were willing to be staunch on their support for resistance. There was one comrade in particular who I remember was Uncompromising in their support for resistance. To them, the Palestinians were fighting for their liberation and that’s all that mattered, who cared how many IDF soldiers or settler died trying to oppress them.
However that was a rare case, and more often then not, although I do see those people as comrades, as we genuinely organized to the best of our ability, these people could be tiring to deal with. Having to word my statements in ways that wouldn’t be misconstrued for secret antisemitism when sometimes I just wanted to say, “who cares what the Houthi flag says, they’re trying to stop a genocide.” Also a good variety of anti-zionist jews tended towards anarchism over Marxism-Leninism, so of course their were disagreements there as well.
Like, I can understand that material factors are the core to influencing a groups actions. But am I not a little justified as a Muslim to be bitter that when Jews are having their identity attacked due to the actions if zionism, many of them choose to hold on to zionism rather then fight it?